Editor's Selections: Methods FAIL, Empathic Robots, Gorilla Tag, and MDMA for PTSD

Here are my Research Blogging Editor's Selections for this week:

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There's been a lot of news about robots lately, so I thought I'd take the opportunity to synthesize what's going on in this field and offer a bit of speculation about where robotics is headed.
Kids love robots. I have a three-year-old friend who can identify the 1950s cult icon Robbie the Robot at 20 paces. My own son Jim could do an impressive multi-voiced impression of R2D2 by age five.